Ross Flournoy founded Apex Manor after the 2009 demise of The Broken West. The album "The Year Of Magical Drinking" is filled with pretty cool stuff, due out at the end of the month from the fine folks at Merge Records.

Apex Manor - 'Burn Me Alive'

Nonesuch releases its second record from North Carolina-based string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops—a four-song EP—on January 25. The record is a collaboration with the New York City–based Romanian gypsy punk band Luminescent Orchestrii; it was co-produced by that group’s sound engineer, Joseph “Bass” DeJarnette, with the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Luminescent Orchestrii.

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